Son of John and Leah Smith; husband of Christina Smith, of Oudtshoorn. Born Somerset East. A mason
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Oudtshoorn Old Cemetery, Necropolis Road.
4 Sep 2026: reverted Corps->Regiment for Cape Corps. John, citing SA History Online (sahistory.org.za/article/cape-coloured-corps-and-first-world-war), identified Cape Corps as a combat/recruiting identity with numbered battalions beneath it (like King's Royal Rifle Corps or the Machine Gun Corps), not an administrative branch grouping multiple distinct regiments -- unlike e.g. South African Infantry Corps, which genuinely groups different named regiments (Transvaal Scottish, Durban Light Infantry, etc).
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
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Oudtshoorn Old Cemetery, Necropolis Road
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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